What is CVE-2014-9606?

CVE-2014-9606 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Netsweeper, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2020-02-19.

How severe is CVE-2014-9606?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2014-9606 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Netsweeper

CVE-2014-9606

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Netsweeper before 3.1.10, 4.0.x before 4.0.9, and 4.1.x before 4.1.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) server parameter to remotereporter/load_logfiles.php, (2) customctid parameter to webadmin/policy/category_table_ajax.php, (3) urllist parameter to webadmin/alert/alert.php, (4) QUERY_STRING to webadmin/ajaxfilemanager/ajax_get_file_listing.php, or (5) PATH_INFO to webadmin/policy/policy_table_ajax.php/.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.043 (90.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Netsweeper
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-9606?: CVE-2014-9606 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Netsweeper, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2020-02-19.
How severe is CVE-2014-9606?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2014-9606 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.